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THE PARTY With yellow poppies decorating the stage, yellow flower centerpieces and yellow poppy cookies at each seat, you could say the AWF’s Numbers Too Big To Ignore luncheon was in full bloom! The 81,000 yellow flowers in the ballroom were meant to make a statement: They represented the 81,000 girls who woke up in poverty in the five metro Atlanta counties that morning. The org’s mission aims to help those ladies blossom. THE PLAYERS Kelly Dolan, Sal Kibler, Danita Knight, Elizabeth Noe, Ingrid Saunders Jones, Susan L. Taylor THE HIGHLIGHTS While guests munched on chicken and Israeli couscous and tried not to eat the poppy cookie first, Mayor Kasim Reed took to the stage to charm the predominantly female crowd before announcing he was donating $5,000 of his own money to the cause. Prior to keynote speaker Susan L. Taylor, editor emerita of Essence magazine and founder of the National Cares Mentoring Movement taking the stage, guests went wild when Spanx came down the aisles to rousing music handing out special yellow poppy power panties made especially for the event to everyone in the crowd. Photography by Scott Asano